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Category Archives: Photography
The Transit of Venus
Here’s a few beautiful photos of the transit of Venus captured from North America. Def. a keeper!
Link via APOD where you can find more stuff and info.
Much Later… Great close up photo of the transit on APOD!
On this lovely day.. flowers
It’s a lovely Friday afternoon out and I thought it would be nice to post a few photos I took in the last couple of days.
Whatever you get up to at the weekend, have a good one, and for those nearer to home, have a great bank holiday!
Spiders, spiders.. everywhere!
Sitting down to read the Sunday Times yesterday what crawls out from underneath the paper? *shudder* Any sane person would get something to either trap or kill the spider but I grabbed my camera and snapped a few photos!
FWIW, when I was finished I trapped the spider and released it into the garden. It’s bad luck to kill a spider isn’t it?
Rule of 3rds
A few days ago I mentioned a photography tutorial site. This thread on dpreview links to it too, but there’s lots of great comments and advice from experienced photographers there and a couple of interesting links too!
Photographic Composition – a Tutorial and Guide
Andy WIlliams posted this excellent link to the STF. The American School of Paris has plenty of other tutorials, links and articles.
Digital Panoramas – Panotools and Photoshop
Here’s a good and lengthy article on Digital Panoramas. There are several good tips about taking the photo as well as a walk through using PTAssembler.
Me? I’m still stuck using the GIMP, CBA learning Panotools as I seem to get “good enough” results without them!
The author has a blog post about the article, with links to other stuff he’s written on the subject!
James Nachtwey – Photography Gallery
Not sure where I found this link, might have been del.icio.us. James Nachtwey has an online gallery and his images are well worth a look. Be warned that it’s not all roses and honey in his world…
Vivid Light Photograpy #36
The latest Vivid Light magazine is online and there’s certainly a few interesting articles. Mark quoted from two of the articles but I had a quick read of the Nude vs. Naked story. Judging by the comments left, it’s a hot issue among readers of the mag, although to be honest the nudes were very tasteful and hardly worthy of the negative attention they received.
Then again.. “ohmygod! is that Janet Jackson’s nipple?” *shock*
Photographic Filters, Adapters, Usage…
Really good and lengthy article on camera filters. I’ve only read a bit of it but it’s enlightening. I have to disagree with his assertion that protective filters not be used. I agree that they degrade image quality somewhat but I’d rather have the security of that uv filter..